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Anyone notice the painting behind Mallory's desk?


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#1 Double-0-Seven

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Posted 26 December 2012 - 02:40 PM

Forgive me if this has been discussed, but after a quick search of the forum I could not find anything.

At the end of the film in the new office, there's a painting behind M. I didn't notice what it contained during my three viewings of the film, but Bond on Set has a nice shot of the whole office and I saw what it was - the SIS building, before the explosion, naturally.

 

Very nice touch.



#2 thecasinoroyale

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Posted 26 December 2012 - 03:54 PM

I saw that too - does that mean they will not use the MI6 building after the attack, so that is there as a remembrance for the Bond universe, or simply a nod to what M stands for?

 

Nice none-the-less.



#3 seawolfnyy

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Posted 26 December 2012 - 05:21 PM

Yep, it's the Vauxhall building.



#4 marktmurphy

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Posted 27 December 2012 - 02:13 PM

Horrible, isn't it?

 

Still, not being a Naval man I don't know what else he'd have. A painting of Belfast burning?



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Posted 27 December 2012 - 03:55 PM

That's not a painting. That's a photo which was treated to not more than one Photoshop filter (generic setting). Horrible indeed. If it had to be (to make it clear to everyone that we are not in the old MI6 building any more), it would have been a nice nod if they had a Ken Adams sketch of the building. But something like the painting he has on that other wall would have been much more fitting.

#6 marktmurphy

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Posted 27 December 2012 - 07:27 PM

That's not a painting. That's a photo which was treated to not more than one Photoshop filter (generic setting). 

 

No, I'm not convinced they only did that.



#7 stromberg

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Posted 27 December 2012 - 08:22 PM

That's not a painting. That's a photo which was treated to not more than one Photoshop filter (generic setting). 

 
No, I'm not convinced they only did that.
 


Okay, maybe not a generic setting. And maybe it was a combination of two filters (I guess it's something with palette knife, rough pastels or watercolour), and a bit of desaturation at the end, but not much more. The image perspective and point of view speaks for itself. That's a typical photo perspective. No painter would paint it like that, with the road on the bridge in the foreground, wasting space and cutting off half of the building. A painter would have Vauxhall bridge in the painting, and walk a hundred meters up or down the Thames to have the perfect point of view. No painting it is.

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Posted 29 December 2012 - 08:32 PM

Or they painted it from a photo.

 

This is a Bond movie we're talking about; they don't do things half-arsed. Remember the painting of Bernard Lee?



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Posted 29 December 2012 - 10:47 PM

It's by James Hart Dyke, the same artist who did the Everything or Nothing poster, which looks photoshopped too, but there was an interview with 007.com where he said he uses acrylics.

 

http://www.jameshart...s_Bond_007.html



#10 stromberg

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Posted 29 December 2012 - 11:15 PM

I stand corrected.  :blush:



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Posted 31 December 2012 - 01:38 AM

Provenance of M's Vauxhall HQ painting aside, what do ya guys and gals think about the significance of the painting itself? I just noticed this upon a second viewing of the film, earlier today. Hadn't seen the film since opening day. And this 'lil bit struck me.

 

For my part, I'm hoping that they've temporarily gone into the old MI6 HQ building, whilst Vauxhall is being repaired. Despite what was likely extensive damage, the entire building didn't blow up and collapse, after all. Not to mention that the Vauxhall building is not only 'the real deal', but it's also an iconic fixture along the Thames.

 

That said, if they hopefully move back into the Vauxhall building, I wouldn't mind M's office continuing to look much as it did at the end of 'Skyfall'.

 

Oh, and MarkTMurphy, while Mallory doesn't seem to be a naval man, I did also spot a naval painting on the office's right hand wall (if facing M's desk). Perhaps another nod to Sir Miles Messervy?



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Posted 22 February 2013 - 12:05 AM

Talking about paintings hanging up in M's room, did anyone else catch the painting depicting ships sailing forwards? That's got to be a meaning - Bond fully restored and not being salvaged for scrap ala Q's analogy at the art gallery. 



#13 Pussfeller

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Posted 22 February 2013 - 01:07 AM

A picture of the old HQ seems a bit sentimental-rubbishy for a hard-bitten sumbitch.



#14 TheManwiththeWaltherPPK

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Posted 22 February 2013 - 07:50 PM

Provenance of M's Vauxhall HQ painting aside, what do ya guys and gals think about the significance of the painting itself? I just noticed this upon a second viewing of the film, earlier today. Hadn't seen the film since opening day. And this 'lil bit struck me.

 

For my part, I'm hoping that they've temporarily gone into the old MI6 HQ building, whilst Vauxhall is being repaired. Despite what was likely extensive damage, the entire building didn't blow up and collapse, after all. Not to mention that the Vauxhall building is not only 'the real deal', but it's also an iconic fixture along the Thames.

 

That said, if they hopefully move back into the Vauxhall building, I wouldn't mind M's office continuing to look much as it did at the end of 'Skyfall'.

 

Oh, and MarkTMurphy, while Mallory doesn't seem to be a naval man, I did also spot a naval painting on the office's right hand wall (if facing M's desk). Perhaps another nod to Sir Miles Messervy?

 

I don't think Mallory's traditional M office is supposed to be temporary while Vauxhall is repaired.  They would have had him stay in his old new office that he was just moving into as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee.  Tanner made it very clear to Bond at the beginning of the film that the old building was declared a security risk, too open and visible of a target.  To me, when you add in the memorial painting above the new M's desk, that suggests to me that Vauxhall Cross is a thing of the past, at least in the Bond universe.



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Posted 22 February 2013 - 08:02 PM

To me, when you add in the memorial painting above the new M's desk, that suggests to me that Vauxhall Cross is a thing of the past, at least in the Bond universe.

That's how I think too. I certainly hope that they will keep the classic M's office in Bond 24 - with the Universal Exports front. 


Edited by AgenttiNollaNollaSeitsemän, 22 February 2013 - 08:04 PM.


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Posted 24 February 2013 - 02:19 AM

I noticed that too, I'm glad I wasn't the only one. I was wondering if that was some kind of subtle statement that the 'public' MI6 was past, and now they were reverting to more secretive operations, like the "Universal Exports" days.



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Posted 24 February 2013 - 01:37 PM

It would be a natural time to reintroduce the Univex front. 



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Posted 24 February 2013 - 04:55 PM

I noticed the painting on my last viewing on the big screen.  Mendes' commentary says Moneypenny's office is an exact replica of the one in Doctor No, so time for some freeze framing!



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Posted 25 February 2013 - 05:57 PM

I haven't done any comparisons, but I doubt that it is a exact replica - the desk and coat rack are at the wrong places. The floor plan might be the same, but the placement of furniture certainly isn't.



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Posted 25 February 2013 - 06:46 PM

I haven't done any comparisons, but I doubt that it is a exact replica - the desk and coat rack are at the wrong places. The floor plan might be the same, but the placement of furniture certainly isn't.

 

Yeah I picked up on this too. I love the detail in Mallory's new office though. Saying that though, Moneypenny's office in Skyfall did give a fantastic retro, yet contemporary feel.